Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

From Wsudrinffton. Ow tt* IM, Vice-President Wheeler was called »w*y by akkaeaa ta Mt family, and the Senate elected Senator Thurman, of Ohio, a* President pro tan. The Republican, voted for Perry, of Michigan. Pnor. Cr*ca Thomas, State Entomologist of mtnota, Bm been appointed to and declined the position of Kntomoloztst to the DepartBMntof AettenlUtre at Washlnuton. A DECISION baa been rendered by the At-tontey-General of the United States, affirming a former ruling of the Asrtstant AttorneyGeneral for the Poetoffice Department, that a renter publication. designed primarily for advertising purposes, cannot be sent through the mails at rates charged legitimate newspapers. Tn entire lot of 4-per-centa having been subscribed by the New York Syndicate, Sec’y Sherman, on the 18th, withdrew Ms late circular calling in for redemption the 10-40 loan. The Secretary further announces that “ the |lO refunding certificates will hereafter be exchanged for lawful money, In sums not to exesad 6100 st one time, by the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer* of the United States, and by all public officers bonded for thst purpose. They will not be issued hereafter upon the certificate of any National Bank depositary. Oocamissions on such exchange heretofore or hereafter made will be allowed at the rate of Xof 1 per cent on any aggregate of 61.000, without regard to the period in which such exchanges are made. Departmen t circulars of March 12 and 26,1879, are modified accordingly. ** . > Tu Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, as announced at a joint caucus held in Washington, on the night of the 18tb, la as follows: Maine, Representative Lindsey; New Hampshire, Senator Rollins; Veramt, Representative Tyler; Massachusetts, Representative Crapo; Rhode Island, Senator Burnside; Connecticut, Representative Walt; New Turk, Representative Hiscock; New Jersey, Representative Robeson; Pennsylvania, Representative Fisher; Maryland, Representative Urnea ; Virginia, Representative Jorgensen; North Carolina, Representative Martin; Mississippi, Senator Brux; Louisiana, Senator Kellogg; Ohio, Representative McKinley; Tennessee, Representative Houck; Indiana, Representative Orth; Illinois, ; Michigan, Representative Hubbell: Florida, Horatio Bisbee; lowa, Representative Allerton; California, Senator Booth; Minnesota, Representative Dunnell; Kansas, Represent ail re | Nebraska, Senator Paddock;. Colorado, Representative Belford; Washington Territory, Delegate Brents; Dakota Territory, Delegate Bennett. President HaYes had an Interview with Chief Moses and other Indians, at the Executive Mansion, on the 19th, at which he said be was glad to see them, and that he hoped Sec’y Schurt would make a settlement with them which would be satisfactory. The President expressed a desire to deal justly with them, and he hoped the Indians would always be the friends of the Government as the Government was their friend. Borne of the Umatilla Indiana, while at the office of the Secretary of the Interior, expressed their dissatisfaction with the terms agreed upon, on the 18th, but Chief Moses stood to the contract Bxc’r Sherman, on the 18th, issued the ninety-eighth call for the redemption 'of bonds, the cal) being for 6160,000,000 10-40 bonds of 1864—>46,775,000 being coupon, and 1118,225,000 registered. The principal and accrued Interest will be paid on and after July 18, interest to cease on that day. Os the 19th, 910,000,000 of 4-per-cents were shipped tp Europe. Tns Secretary of War addressed a letter to Gen. Sherman, on the 19th, directing that in case Bitting Bull or any of his followers crossed the border, they be held prisoners of war until further orders from the President The East. R. G. Dux & Co. place the number of failures in the States and Territories during the quarter ending March 31, 1879, at 2,524, with liabilities of 643,112,665. For the same time last year the failures numbered 3,355, and the liabilities amounted to 682,078,826. Miss Jcub E. Smith, the surviving sister of the celebrated tax-fighting sisters, of Glastonbury, Conn., was married, a few days ago, to Mr. Amos G. Parker, of New Hampshire. Both bride and groom are eighty-six years old. ' John p. Phair, who was recently hanged at Windsor, Vt, left behind him a statement, in which be insists that he was unjustly condemned, and declares that he was innocent of the crime for which be was to suffer. At the Talmage trial before the New York Presbytery, on the 14th, one of the members moved to dismiss the charges. The defense strenuously objected, claiming the right to show their utter groundlessness, and the motion waa withdrawn. A New York telegram of the 17th| states that a Syndicate, composed of banks of that city and Boston. uart-sutaeribed for 6150,000, - 000 4-per-cent. Government bonds and 640,OOQ/klO funding certificates, this being the largest single subscription ever made to a Gove: ament loan in this or any other country. The subscription was made according to the terms prescribed by Sec’y Sherman In his circular as the 16th. A wife-murderer, named Hezekiah Shaffer, was hanged at Chambersburg, Pa., on the 17th. He was carried to the scaffold ip a blanket, the loss of blood consequent upon an attempt at suicide, a few nights before, rendering him unable to walk. The New York Assembly have adopted a resolution tendering to Gen. Grant the hospitalities of the State on his return from his travels abroad, and the Philadelphia Common Council has decided to send a committee to California to welcome him on his arrival. Tu following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on April 19th: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, 99c©61.01; Na 2 Milwaukee, [email protected]. Oats, Wesvera Mixed, 31@31*<c. Corn, Western Mixed, 44#@45c. Pork, Mess, 69.40©10.37jf. Lard, Flour, Good to Choice, «3.95 ©4.50; White Wheat Extra, 64.55tf5.25. Cattle, 68.75©10.75 for Good to Extra. Sheep, 64.25(96.25. Hoga, [email protected]. At East Liberty, Fla., on April 19th, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; .Medium, 64.65© 4.86; Common, •3.80&4.25. Hogs sold— Yorkers, >3.50©3 60; Philadelphia, 63.90@ 4.00. Sheep brought [email protected]—according to quality. AT Baltimore, Md., on April 19th, Cattte brought; Best, Medium 68.M©4.«7tf. Hogs sold at 85.0035.75 for Good. Sheep were quoted at 64.00@612X for Good, Wert and Booth. Or the afternoon of the 14th, a eyctone visited the Town of Collinsville, in Madison County, fit, centering in the main street of the village. Fifty bouses snd business structural wen leveled to the ground, three persons were killed and several others iporo or less hurt. The cemetery just outside the town was laM waste and every tombstone in it destroyed. Arftatata, M, « tM4th, Judo? Bond, of the United States Circuit Court, de nied the motfcm of defendants in the election Sto ret aside the juries as illegally court; alto a motion to continue the caass,

and a motion to prevent the teat oath from being administered to the jurors. Hie associate, Judge Bryan, dissented, and Judge Bend announced that, pending appeal ts the Supreme Court on these lasuas, the accused, if convicted, would be admitted to bait About aoon, on lhe IMb, some daring thieves entered the State Treasurers' office st Springfield, 111., and, while the attention of thednkin charge was directed elsewhere, reached over the railing and stole a 15,000package of currency. Upto midnight, no clue had been secured to the thief or thieves, although two persona had been arrested on susVioksuvro (Mias.) dispatches of the 15th say the negro exodus continued, every Bt. Louis packet taking great numbers. At every landing between Vicksburg and Memphis were negroes on the levee awaiting transportation. i Tua lowa State Republican Convention has been called to meet at DcsMoincs, on Wednesday, June 11, to nominate candidates for Governor, Lleuteuant-Governor and other State officers. ..., A special election was lately held in the Sixth Texas District to elect a Member of Congress tn place of Hon. Gustav Schleicher, lately deceased. Returns, -received on the 16th, Indicated the election of Upson (Dem.) by 3,000 majority over Maney (Greenback.) The Refugee Relief Committee of St. Louis, on the 16th, made an additional appeal for aid, stating that the tide of colored emigration from the South had again set in. and the committee were not only out of money, but were several hundred dollars in debt So far over 6,000 emigrants had arrived there of whom about 2,000 were able to pay their way to Kansas. The remainder were sheltered, fed and partially clothed while in St. Louis, and their passage was paid to Wyandotte, Kan. Aid in money or clothing may be sent to Rev. John Turner, 1512 Morgan street, or Rev. Moses Dickson, 1211 Morgan street. Thh full returns of the late election in Wisconsin show that Judge Cole, the Republican candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court, •eceived a majority of 33,133 votes. The Illinois House of Representatives have released Frank E. Nevins, the recusant reporter of the Chicago Tribune, who refused to testify as to certain charges against some of the members, from imprisonment An application was recently made by the Mayor of Wyandotte, Kan., to the Secretary of War for the issue of rations to feed the colored people who have lately landed there from the South In a destitute condition. The Secretary replied thit ba had no authority to grant the request, and referred the petitioners to. Congress. The Citizens’ Relief Committee of that city have issued an appeal to the i üblie for contributions to aid the suffering immigrants. The jury In the Olive murder trial, at Hastings, Neb., brought in a verdict, on the 17th, of murder in the second degree against J. P. Olive and Frederick Fishe, and the Judge sentenced both the prisoners to the Penitentiary for life. The crime for which they were tried was that of murdering Luther Mitchell, by shooting and burning, in Custer County, in December last. Four other parties were to be tried for the same crime. A terrible windstorm passed over the lowerportion of South Carolina, on the night of the 16th, causing great destruction to life and property. In the Village of Walterboro, more than one hundred dwellings and all the churches were swept away. Fifteen persons were killed and many others wounded. A burglar, who was attempting to escape from the police, was shot dead on LaSalle street, in Chicago, on the night of the 17th. On the 17th, James Carroll (colored), accused of an outrageous assault upon a white woman, at Licksville, Md., was taken from a railroad train, at Washington Junction, by a band of masked men, pulled across a field to the nearest tree and hanged. It is authoritatively stated that the President has set aside a very large reservation in Washington Territory for Chief Moses and bis people, with such other tribes as may affiliate and the Secretary of the Interior may send. On the night of the 18th, a train on the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad struck the bridge over Fishing Creek, near "Kearney, Mb., just after it had been set on fire by a passing locomotive. When the train reached the middle the whole structure gave way, and the engine and thirteen stock-laden cars were precipitated into the stream twenty feet below. One man was burned to death and all the train-men, except thp fireman, who saved himself by. leaping overboard as the engine went over, were more or less injured. At a Colored Convention, held in New Orleans on the 19tb, a resolution indorsing emigration was passed unanimously. A committee was appointed to attend a mass meeting in Mobile. The New Orleans tobacco cases have been compromised by the payment of a large sum to the Government. In Chicago, on April 19th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at cash; 86%c for April; 87%@87%c for May. Cash Corn closed at for No. 2; 33Xc for April; 34%c for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 81c, and 24%c seller Mav. Rye No. 2, 46X@48c. Barley Na 2, 69X@70c for cash; 69X©70cfor April. «Cash Mess Pork closed at [email protected]. Lard. 65 87X- Beeves —Extra brought $4.80(85.10; Choice, 14 50 Good, »[email protected]; Medium Grades, $3.85(34.10; Butchers’ Stock, $2.65®3.90; Stock Cattle, etc.. [email protected]. togs— Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, [email protected]. Foreign Intelligence. An unsuccessful attempt was made to tjke the life of the Czar of Russia, on the morning of the 14th. While he was walking near his palace in St. Petersburg, four shots were fired at him, but he was unhurt. The would-be assassin was arrested by a crowd which assembled on hearing the noise of the firing. The city was Immediately decorated In thankfulness for the Czar’s escape. A Berlin dispatch of the 14th announces the discovery of a very productive petroleum spring near Pechelbroun, in Alsace. Official announcement has been made that the Russians will begin the evacuation of Roumelia and Bulgaria, on the Ist of May. Gen. GARiBALDJ.has written a letter strongly advocating universal suffrage throughout Italy. According to St. Petersburg dispatches of the 15th, the feeling in official circles, in consequence of the recent attempt upon the life of the Cztt, was one of mingled terror, rage and mutual distrust The report prevailed that the heads of the secret police force had tendered their resignations because they had learned that three fourths of their subordinates were Nihilists. The name of the Czar’c assailant had been ascertained to be SoJdwjeff. « London dispatches of the 15th say that many of the striking miners were emigrating to the United States and the Colonies. Berlin dispatches of the 16th say that Solowjeff, the would-be assassin of. the Ozar, had confessed that he waa appointed by lot to shoot the I A Cairo (Egypt) telegram of the 16th says the Khedive had recalled all furloughed officers and disbanded taildiers. The striking miners in the Durham District numbered 40,000, on the 16th. It was believed, however, that the trouble would be speedily settled. According to Cape Town dispatches, received In London on the 16th, Kinfc Cetewayo with overtures of peace. Thj Ekowe relief, column was started on the 28th Of March. W the 80th, in a fight with 20,000 Zulus, the column lost seventy-seven m< h.

The fl re-works factory at Angouleme, France, exploded, on the 16lh. Seven persons were killed outright and many more were mlsslqg. ■ , , Disratc'nss from 8L Petersburg, received on the’l7ih, ssy the Chief of Police of the City of Archangel had been eseesslnated. Tbs Chief of Police of the Town of Yells, In the Crimea, had been arrested as a revolutionist. TheCaarhed appointed a special Commission” er to devise repressive measures against the Nlhlllsta, Berlin papers of the 17tb say that Russia had demanded the extradition of certain Nihilists domiciled In London, and that England had refused to honor the demand. A Conbtantinopxk telegram of . the 17th says great financial distress prevailed there and throughout Turkey. The currency was greatly depreciated, 610 In paper selling for 61 in gold. On the 17th, an explosion of fire-damp occurred in the AgrappoCoal Mine, near Mons, In Belgium. There were 240 men in the pit. According to a Constantinople telegram of the 18th, the Sultan, In receiving the Egyptian envoy, had expressed his disapprobation of the Khcdlve’a conduct, but said he did not Intend to dethrone him. Several of the German prelates have offered to resign their seats to facilitate nego nations between Germany and the Vatican. The rivers forming the Theiss have again overflowed their banks and sulonerged hundreds of square miles of territory. Szegedln and several other important Hungarian towns were again threatened. The Russian newspapers have beau forbidden to make further allusions to the late attempt on tpe life of the Czar. London dispatches of the 18th say England’s trade with China would have to be abandoned, for the reason that American opposition and enterprise bad killed British rivalry in that portion of the world. An American horse. Parole, won the stakes at the Newmarket (Eng.) laces a few days ago. The Turks are fortifying the coast of Epirus, and Turkish men-of-war are cruising iu adjacent waters to ward off all anticipated Italian and Albanian attacks. ,A revolution recently broke out iu Panama. There was fighting in the streets of that city for fourteen hours, and many were killed. All was quiet at last Accounts. Up to the evening of the 18th, eighty-nine persons had been rescued from the burning Belgian coal mine. The Czar issued a ukase, at St. Petersburg, on the 18tb, directing the appointment of a Governor-General for each ot the most populous districts In Russia, with despotic powers, exceeding those even of Generals in time of war. A gas explosion recently occurred in the coal-mines at Departure Bay, Vancouver’s Island. Eleven men were killed outright and fifteen or twenty were seriously injured. According to St. Petersburg dispatches on the 19th, a riot recently occurred at Rostav, on the Don, which was only suppressed after tbe military had been called out. TheffightIng continued during one entire night, and the residences of the Chief of Police and Town Overseer and the police station and police records were destroyed. Several policemen were killed. '• The publisher of a Paris newspaper was fined 6,000 francs and sentenced to eight months’ imprsonment lately, for printing a scurrilous attack on Catholicism. A Belgrade dispatch of the 19th says an Albanian force had taken possession ,of Kurshumlie, and massacred all the Christian inhabitants. According to a Paris telegram of the 20th, the epidemic of glanders prevailed to an alarming extent in the cavalry stables at Lyons. Already over 400,QU0 francs’ worth of horses had been slaughtered because of the malady. The Sultan has finally ratified the NoviBazar Convention with Austria. Bombay (India)dispatches, received in London on the 20th, say intelligence had been received from Mandalay that the King of Burmah had declared to his counsellors that henceforth he would neither listen to or speak of proposals for an accommodation with Great Britain.

Congressional Proceedings. Various memorials and bills were introduced and referred in the Senate, on the 14th, among the latter being one to amend the Constitution in regard to appropriations, and one to amend the Revised Statutes in regard to the election of United States Senators, the design being to remedy a defect in the existing law, which was brought into public view by the New Hampshire ca«e.... Consideration was resumed of the Army Appropriation hill, the pending question being on the amendment ottered by Mr. Blaine, prohibiting the appearance, within a mile of a polling-place, of any person armed with a deadly weapon of any kind, and Mr. Blaine addressed the Senate in opposition to the proposed repeal of the clause conferring on the General Government the power to use the military to keep the peace at the polls. Messrs. Withers and Wallace followed in reply. Mr. Logan obtained the Boor, when an Executive session was held. In the House, when the Speaker called on the States for bills for reference. Mr. Ladd, of Maine, introduced a bill to put the coinage of gold and silver on the same footing, when Mr. Conger raised a point of order, which was overruled by the Speaker, and an appeal was taken, which was finally laid on the table—l 39 to 75- - the dilatory motions being made for the purpose of preventing the introduction of new bills relating to the finances ot the country; the morning hour was thus oonattmed.-.. A resolution was offered and defeated—yeas, 108; nays, 117—declaring that in the judgment of the House, the business interests of the country required that no legislation changing the law in. regard to the currency or the tariff should be undertaken at the present session of Congress....A bill was introduced to increase the efficiency of the National Board of Health and to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious diseases.... Bills were filed, under the head of petitions—providing for the free coinage of the standard silver dollar of 412 H grains, the same to be a f nil legal tender, except when- otherwise provided by contract: authorizing and requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase from time to time silver bullion, at the market price thereof, to the amount of such bullion as may be offered, provided such bullion is the product of any mine within the jurisdiction of the United States; such bullion to be coined into standard dollars to the capacity of the mints, in connection with other coinage: to regulate inter-Btate commerce, and to prohibit unjust discrimination by common carriers; to amend the Revised Statutes concerning commerce and navigation, and the regulation of steam vessels. In the Senate, on the 15th, the Secretary read a note from Vice-President Wheeler announcing his summons home because of the dangerous illness of his sister.... Mr. Bayard offered a resolution that Mr. Thurman be chosen President pro ttm. of the Senate. Mr. Anthony moved to substitute the name of Mr. Ferry, which was disagreed to—yean, 18; nays, 28—and the resolution was passed. Mr. Thurman was then conducted to the chair by Mr. Ferry, and returned thanks for the mark of confidence.... Bills were introduced and referred—to provide for an increase of the army in an emergency; to provide for the speedy completion of a line of railn sd and telegraph between the ports of the lower Mississippi River and the southern frontier of the United States, and to aid in the construction of the same, and for other purposes. ....Mt. Hoar asked to be relieved from service as a member of the Committee on Agriculture, and Mr. Cameron (Wis.) asked to be relieved from service as a member of the Committee on Routes to the Seaboard, and Mr. Bell was appointed to fill the vacancies thus occasioned. .... Mr. Lamar was appointed to fill a vacancy in the Committee on Education and Labor.... rhe Army Appropriation bill was taken np. and Mr. Logan spoke against the proposed legislation enacted by the House; Mr. Beck replied to Mr. Logan’s remarks. , In the House, the Senate bill for the purchase or construction of a refrigerating ship for the disinfection of vessels and cargoes was passed, with a trifling amendment.... A petition was filed by Mr. De LaMatyr fora bill prepared by him for the substitution of United States legaltender paper money for National Bank notes.... The Legislative Appropriation bill was further debated in Committee of the Whole, and a motion to insert a clause repealing the law creating the Southern Claims Commission was finally rejected-A3 to IOT. . was intnxlu&ed aed referred in the Senate, on the 16th. providing for the establishment of a steamship mail service between the United States and Brazil.... Mr. Beck concluded his remarks on the Army bill, and was followed by Mr. Dawes, who replied to the argu-

mrata of Mr. Beck... Wade Hampton waa aworn in and took hia aaat M Senator from Booth Carolina, taking the inodifioi uatb. A bill waa reported iq the Houae, from the (fomoiitteemidoiiiaHß. Weighta and MeaaUrea. for an inter Mange ot MiUi.riaxj coin fav Mnltendar m«MH, iu aunui of tan doUam and muHlplea th«reof, an«i making coin a legal tender >H SUSisfffiStti’aJte’Jta: tioui and the point of order waa raiaod that no bill on the aubject having been referred to a coinunttee, the committee had no right to make a report, which ixiint of order waa overruled by the Speaker...,A bill waa paaaed relating to the organization of* the Nauonal Board of Health...-The Legjaiative Appropriation bill was taken up in Comnuttae of the Whole, and a propneed amendment to repeal tbe acta eatablmhing the Southern Claima Commiaaiou, and directing the transfer of all pending caaea to the Court of Claima, we rejected. All the bill was diapoaed ot except the portions especially reserved for general diseoMioa. being the provieiona in respect to the inode of selecting Grand and Petit Jurors, repealing the JnrorV test <Mth. and in respect to Bupervtoom of Elections and Deputy Marshals. An effort to limit the apeechm tn thirty minutes each failed, and the Chair said there were ninety-aix names in the list of those desiring to speak. Mr. ijewis opened the debate and who followed by Mr. Sanford after whom Mr. Kelley obtained the floor, bnt be yielded to a motion that tbe committee rise, which motion was adopted. The discussion of the Army Appropriation bill was continued, in tbe Senate, on the 17th, Mr. Voorhees advocating, and Mr. Toller opposing, the proposed political legislation contained in the bill as passed by the House. In the House, a motion to refer to tbe Committee on Banking and Currency tbe bill, re ported on the 16th, providing for the exchange of subsidiary silver coin for legal tender* in all sum* not exceeding ten dollars waa rejected—88to 97—thus bringing the bill before tbe House. .... A motion was agreed to 131 to 91—that the debate on the legislative Appropriation bill should close on the 26th .. In Committee of the Whole, the legislative Appropriation bill waa debated by Measn. Kelley and Carlisle. A resolution offered by Mr. Wallace, to alter the rule* so that removals and appointments of officers of the Senate may be made by the Secretary and Serge*nt-at-Arms, respectively. without the approval of the President of the Senate, was considered in the Senate, on the 18th. ..The Army bill was further debated, Messrs. Randolph and Groome speaking in favor of the proptnen legislation repealing the law authorizing the nse of tbe army at elections... .Adjourned to the 21st. The morning hour was dispensed with in the House, and the Subsidiary Coin bill was not taken up.... The Legislative Appropriation bill was again taken up in Committee of the Whole, and speeches were made by Messrs. McKinley, Blackburn, House, Burrows. Gibson, Coffroth and Dickey, Mr. Price obtaining the floor just before tbe committee rose. The Senate was not in session, on the 19th. The Subsidiary Silver Coin bill came up as unfinished business. In the House, and a substitute was offered by Mr. Mills, providing for a silver dollar of 412 K grains, half dollars of 206*4 grains, quarters o( 103*;, dimes nf 41*< and half dime* of 20?» grama, and that all of them should be legal tender for any sum whatever; an amendment, offered by Mr. Garfield, was agreed to, substituting the words " lawful money of the United States, for “ legal-tender moneyan amendment waa also agreed to, increasing the legal-tender quality of the subsidiary silver coin to twenty dollars: several other amendments were offered, and the bill, with the pending amendments and Mr. Mills' substitute, went over without action. ..In Committee of the Whole, an exciting peson&l debate occurred between Messrs. Frye and Blackburn during the discussion of the Legislative bill. Messrs. Steele and Price also delivered speeches on the pending measure ... A motion to adjourn over Monday was defeated—39 to 67.